Section 15 of Code of Civil Procedure 1908 "Court in which suits to be instituted"
Every suit shall be instituted in the Court of the lowest grade competent to try it
Section 16 of Code of Civil Procedure 1908 "Suits to be instituted where subject matter situate"
Subject to the pecuniary or other limitations prescribed
by any law, suits-
(a) for the recovery of immovable property with or without
rent or profits,
(b) for the partition of immovable property,
(c) for foreclosure, sale or redemption in the case of a
mortgage of or charge upon immovable property,
(d) for the determination of any other right to or interest
in immovable property,
(e) for compensation for wrong to immovable property,
(f) for the recovery of movable property actually under
distraint or attachment, shall be instituted in the Court
within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the property
is situate:
Provided that a suit to obtain relief respecting, or
compensation for wrong to, immovable property held by or on
behalf of the defendant may, where the relief sought can be
entirely obtained through his personal obedience, be
instituted either in the Court within the local limits of
whose jurisdiction the property is situate, or in the Court
within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the defendant
actually and voluntarily resides, or carries on business, or
personally works for gain.
Explanation.-In this section " property " means property
situate in {Subs. by Act 2 of 1951, s.3, for "the States".}
[India].